Shield for trucks.



A. MANTEAU.

SHIELD FOR TRUCKS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 22. 1913.

1,072,965; Patented Sept. 9, 1913.

- I Ff- AMUS iuANrEAU, or DILLONVALE, OHIO.

SHIELD r03, TRUCKS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 22, 1913. Serial No. 743,463.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, Autos MANTEAU, a

' citizen of the United States of America, re-

j siding at Dillonvale, in the county of Jefferson 'and State of Ohio, have invented certain hew' and useful Improvements in Shields for Trucks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to shields for trucks, and the primary object of my in- V vention is to furnish the trucks of railway rolling stock, vehicles or other movable bodies, with positive and reliable means, as hereinafter set forth, for shielding the wheels of the truck, whereby persons and large objects willsbe'ileflected and therefore cannot be run over; orinjuredby the trucks.

Another object of this invent-ion is to furnish a truck with novel wheel guards that are constructed and arranged to adjust themselves to the trucks irrespective of vibrations set up between the trucks and the bolster or permanent part of a car.

A further object of this invention is to provide simple, durable and inexpensive wheel guards for railway rolling stock that can be easily and quickly installed in connection with various types of trucks.

\Vith the above and other objects in View the invention resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of pants to be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed.

Reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a truck provided with the shields, and Fig. 2- is a perspective view of a detached shield.

right angles to the bolster and in parallelism with the wheels 2, at the inner sides thereof. The brackets 3 are bifurcated, as at ;land piyotallyconnected to said brackets by pins 5 are the short extensions 6 of the long inner arms of the shields 7 that are Ushaped in plan. The shields 7 have long extensions 8 at the inner sides of the wheels 2- and these long extensions are connected to the truck, as at 9. The outer arms of the shields extend to the journal boxes 10. of the truck and are cut away, as at 11 to straddle said boxes whereby the outer sides ofthe shields will be supported by the boxes.

With the shields supported in the manner illustrated in Fig. 1, said shields serve as guards for the wheels 2 of the truck and extend in proximity to the rails upon which the truck travels: consequently objects upon Patented Scpttl, 1913.-

is illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention, it is to be understood that the structural elements are susceptibleto such variations and modifications as'fall within the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim isz- A truck shield comprising a bracket adapted to be secured to one end of the truck and having a bifurcated end, a shield member substantially U-shaped in plan and having one of its arms of greater length than the other, said elongated arm being cut away to provide a short and an elongated extension. and means for pivotally connecting said short extension to the bifurcated end of said bracket, said elongated extension being provided with a flange and adapted to be secured to the truck below said bracket and the short arm of said shield member being bifurcated to provide a clearance for the straddling of a journal box by said arm.

In testimony whereof I atiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

AMOS MANTEAUL Witnesses:

AIME MAN'rnAU, RALPH J. Form. 

